Deborah

Deborah is 26 years old. She earns her income through farming. She grows coffee, bananas and sweet potatoes. She keeps cows, goats and pigs. She also has a small commodities shop.

Deborah looks forward to becoming a Community Knowledge Worker (CKW). As a CKW, she will use the materials in her business-in-a-box (smartphone, solar charging set and weighing scale) to disseminate vital agricultural information to the other members of her village, helping them to improve their crop yields and to increase their incomes.

Deborah's biggest dream is to create a school for orphans in her village.

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More information about this loan

This loan is part of Grameen Foundation's AppLab program and Community Knowledge Worker initiative, providing borrowers with mobile phones, solar chargers and other equipment to become knowledge centers for their smallholder farming communities.

With these tools, community knowledge workers can help their neighbors access information and advice to improve their crop yields, connect with markets and generate more income. They can also conduct mobile surveys to help local organizations better meet farmers' needs. Community knowledge workers make monthly salaries based on the number of surveys they collect, enabling them to repay Grameen for the equipment.

This Kiva loan will be used to provide borrowers with needed goods or services, as opposed to cash or financial credit